Yeah I think once you visually see an item it should be identified and marked. Scanner is meant to be long range, but here should be a passive scanner that scans around you so when you fly close to something (even if you're not looking at it) it should still pick it up

Hi, this was our intention. We had quite a few discussions about to show containers in the HUD and decided to don't do it to give the scanning probes more meaning. But we will revise this and maybe change it in the future, so thanks for mentioning this!